Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Penn State University

H-index: 25

North America-United States

About Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 21 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Penn State University, specializes in the field of learning sciences, science education, out-of-school learning, informal learning, museum education.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Place as creative partner: placemaking with a university arboretum

Serendipitous collective creativity at family making programs in public libraries

Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace

Exploring Family Engagement with Photo-Taking to Support Observation During an Outdoor MAR Experience about Pollinators

Mobile augmented reality supporting families’ immersive collaborative learning: Learning-on-the-move for place-based geoscience sense-making

Families’ engagement in making activities related to aerospace engineering: designing for parents as learning partners in pop-up makerspaces

Supporting children’s place-based observations and explanations using collaboration scripts while learning-on-the-move outdoors

Using immersive augmented reality to guide families’ observations and visualizations of pollinator habitats in outdoor spaces

Heather Toomey Zimmerman Information

University

Position

Associate Professor of Education

Citations(all)

2334

Citations(since 2020)

1311

Cited By

1510

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

21

i10Index(all)

41

i10Index(since 2020)

33

Email

University Profile Page

Penn State University

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Heather Toomey Zimmerman Skills & Research Interests

learning sciences

science education

out-of-school learning

informal learning

museum education

Top articles of Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Place as creative partner: placemaking with a university arboretum

Mind, Culture, and Activity

Jaclyn Dudek

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2024/2/11

Serendipitous collective creativity at family making programs in public libraries

Thinking Skills and Creativity.

Soo Hyeon Kim

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2023

Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace

International Journal of Science Education, Part B

Yong Ju Jung

Devon Purington Whalen

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2023/1/2

Exploring Family Engagement with Photo-Taking to Support Observation During an Outdoor MAR Experience about Pollinators

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2023, pp. 337-344

Lillyanna Faimon

Charles Keith

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Susan Land

Lucy McClain

2023

Mobile augmented reality supporting families’ immersive collaborative learning: Learning-on-the-move for place-based geoscience sense-making

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Susan M Land

Lillyanna Faimon

Yu-Chen Chiu

2023/6

Families’ engagement in making activities related to aerospace engineering: designing for parents as learning partners in pop-up makerspaces

Information and Learning Sciences

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Katharine Ellen Grills

Zachary McKinley

Soo Hyeon Kim

2022/3/10

Supporting children’s place-based observations and explanations using collaboration scripts while learning-on-the-move outdoors

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Susan M Land

2022/3

Using immersive augmented reality to guide families’ observations and visualizations of pollinator habitats in outdoor spaces

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2022, pp. 2000-2001

Lucy R McClain

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Susan M Land

Lillyanna Faimon

Yu-Chen Chiu

...

2022

Place-based mobile AR: Technological development of mobile apps to support families to see and discuss science outdoors

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2022, pp. 371-374

Susan M Land

Heather T Zimmerman

Lillyanna Faimon

Yu-Chen Chiu

Lucy McClain

...

2022

Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio‐emotional attitudes toward science with design‐based research

Science Education

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Jennifer L Weible

Elizabeth A Wright

Carmen Vanderhoof

Nina G Jablonski

2022/7

Mobile Augmented Reality Supporting Community-based Learning: Families’ Exploration of Land-Water Interactions

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2022, pp. 345-352

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Susan M Land

Lillyanna Faimon

Yu-Chen Chiu

2022

Place‐based learning processes in a family science workshop: Discussion prompts supporting families sensemaking and rural science connections using a community water model

Science Education

Lucy R McClain

Yu‐Chen Chiu

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2022/5

Digital badging systems as a set of cultural tools for personalized professional development

Educational Technology Research and Development

Chris Gamrat

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2021/7/12

Collaborative idea exchange and material tinkering influence families’ creative engineering practices and products during engineering programs in informal learning environments

Information and Learning Sciences

Soo Hyeon Kim

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2021/9/15

The Role of Parents in the Development of Youths’ Interest in an Engineering Workshop

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2021.

Lillyanna Faimon

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2021

Mobile Augmented Reality in the Backyard: Families’ Outdoor Spaces as Sites of Exploration about Pollinators

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2021.

Heather Zimmerman

Susan Land

Katie Grills

Yu-Chen Chiu

Lillyanna Faimon

...

2021

Supporting observing-on-the-move with proximity-based technology: Designing for children’s scientific observations outdoors

Visitor Studies

Susan M Land

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

Chris Millet

Gi Woong Choi

2020/7/2

Families’ Imaginations in a Meteorology Workshop: Imagining Weather Through Prototyping a Weather Station

Yu-Chen Chiu

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2020

Epistemic agency shifts between children and parents during inventing with robotics at museum-based makerspace

Yong Ju Jung

Devon Purington Whalen

Heather Toomey Zimmerman

2020

What does computer science and maker education look like in 2030?

David Weintrop

Gi Woong Choi

Adam Maltese

Mike Tissenbaum

Margaret Walton

...

2020

See List of Professors in Heather Toomey Zimmerman University(Penn State University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 53
Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Penn State University

H-index: 49
Philip Bell

Philip Bell

University of Washington

H-index: 35
Susan M. Land

Susan M. Land

Penn State University

H-index: 30
Simon Hooper

Simon Hooper

Penn State University

H-index: 24
Brian K Smith

Brian K Smith

Boston College

H-index: 22
Kyle Peck

Kyle Peck

Penn State University

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